"Wake up, princess." Baron's gruff voice tells me, accompanied by a few shakes. My eyes flutter open and meet his, "Your boyfriend is here." He tells me, pulling me up onto my feet and dragging me out the door. Finn was standing across the field, his blue eyes almost glowing because of the black paint around his face. "Like I said, she's fine." Baron calls to him.

"Give her to me..." Finn growls. The grass around his feet was withering and had begun to smoke, "Or I'm going to torch this whole place." He adds.

"Well that would include your precious girlfriend." Baron shrugs simply. He didn't look the least bit scared of Finn, and I wondered if he was just good at hiding his fear or if he truly wasn't because he had all his little dog friends behind him.

"What do you want Corbin?" Finn asks him, lighting the grass in front of him. I watched as a string of flames began to creep closer and closer to where we were standing. I had to literally take a deep breath and remember what Finn had told me before. I was always safe when he was around.

"Passage on to your land." He replies.

"To what purpose?" Finn responds, tilting his head to the side. I let out a breath of relief when the flames stopped moving.

"That's my own business." He states. "There's a portal in your forest that has my interest."

"If that's your only desire than fine." Finn agrees easy enough. "But hear me when I tell you that if I catch you anywhere near my castle, my soldiers, my people or my woman ever again I won't think twice about killing you and the rest of your mutts."

"Whatever." He shrugs, shoving me forward.

"You're an asshole." I mutter, glancing back and Baron but starting to walk towards Finn.

"That's the sweetest thing a woman has ever said to me." He smirks, giving me a small wave. When I was close enough Finn reached out and took my hand. I blinked and we were literally standing in my bedroom. Black and red was dripping down his face as blue eyes scanned my body, looking for anything that might need attention.

"I'm fine." I assure him.

"You realize I'm never letting you out of my sigh again?" He mutters, shaking his head. I glower at him, and he holds my stare for a moment before smirking. "For long anyway." He winks.

"So who were they?" I ask him curiously. I cock a hip and cross my arms over my chest.

"The wolf pack. They have interest in the coastal land, which is odd. There's really nothing out there." He shrugs. "You're taking all of this rather well." He raises his eyebrows at me. "I wasn't joking when I said that I shouldn't be seeing you in person... Had I stayed away Baron wouldn't have known where to find you."

"Yeah well, I kept saying that you'd keep me safe over and over in my head." I reply honestly.

"And I did."

"And you did." I nod. "I trust you to not let anything happen." I finally say it out loud.

"You're ready." He smiles. "Come downstairs a moment, Kelly is hysterical." He tells me, and I chuckle. Of course she was.

"I'm fine..." I tell her when she wraps both arms around me. "Oh my god, what am I going to tell Professor Galloway? I just disappeared in the middle of my shift." I say, worried for my job.

"I took care of it. You're excused for the next few days." Finn responds. "I wasn't sure how long it would take me to find you." He admits with a shrug.

"Oh my god, I was in panic." Kelly tells me, "Thank god for him." She points to Finn.

"If we're talking real, it's his fault I was kidnapped in the first place... But, yeah. Thank god for him." I agree, glancing over my shoulder at him. "You can go to bed now." I laugh, seeing her yawn. It was day time still, but I"m sure they'd both been up worried about me. "Night." I smile, hugging her again. "I also, am tired." I turn to him.

"Go get some sleep my love, I must go home to my land and warn Barimere of what's just happened." He tells me. My face falls, and I sigh, swaying nervously on my feet. "Do you want to come?" He asks me, noticing.

"Yes." I nod. He takes my hand and again I blink, ending up in a different place. "If you were always able to do that thing you just did, why take me through the portals?" I ask him curiously.

"Because you need to see all that to understand the other worlds." He explains, "To understand who I am and where I come from. Right now I don't have time for that, so, welcome home." He motions to the giant room we were in. It was clearly a bedroom, and at least 3 times as big as the other one at his castle.

"Oh." I murmur. He laces our fingers and we enter a long hallway, after about three turns I have totally lost track of where we are or where we've been. I'm just kind of following behind him until we descend a stair case and it opens up into a large foyer like area. There are people running in every which direction until we appear. Everyone seems to just stop, and look our directions. Eyes glance from me, to Finn and back to me.

"As you were." He tells them, continuing on his route. "Balimere." He greets someone when he pushes open a heavy wooden door. THe room is filled with a handful of men, all were huge, all dressed in lose fitting pants and a woven chain like top. Whatever it was, it looked heavy as hell.

"Sir." He nods curtly, then glances at me. "Lady Annabelle, you're even more beautiful than he had described." He tells me. Finn glances over his shoulder at me, probably trying to figure out what my response would be to that.

"Thank you." I smile at him. Honestly I just didn't know what else I should say, not like I could come back with something Finn had said about any of them.

"This is Balimere." Finn introduces me. Balimere was a pretty big guy, over 6 feet tall, ridiculous black beard and he was littered with war scars along his arms and even on his face. "Balimere, we seem to have a raising issue with the wolves." He tells him.

"They haven't been in our land, sir." He replies, furrowing his brow.

"The water land through the cave portal, has their interest." Finn says. "I want to know what's in there, what they want and why." He states.

"I'll send some men through." He agrees quickly. "As soon as possible." He adds. Finn nods, agreeing with him. "Will you be staying this time, sir?" He questions, almost hopefully. I couldn't imagine the stress that Balimere had to be under trying to keep everything under control while Finn was gone.

"I'm not sure." He answers, glancing at me. "I think I"ll show Annabelle around the castle and the grounds though. As you were men, thank you." He tells them, excusing us from the room. It was literally like stepping into a Lord of the Ring's movie. The clothing was nearly exact, the castle, the soldiers, the look in general, it was absolutely crazy to me. "Are you hungry, my love?" He questions.

"I'm starving." I answered, realizing that I hadn't eaten in nearly two days. Yeah, Baron had offered me dinner that day but I'd refused because I didn't trust him.

"Let's go to the kitchen then." He smiles, leading us down another hallway. "What is on the stove Ellena?" He asks one of the women in the kitchen. There was also another younger girl in there along with two men kneading dough.

"Master Balor." She greets him, "There's a beef stew or a chicken curry with wild rice." She responds. "If neither sound appealing it'd be no problem to make you or Lady Annabelle something." It was really weird to me that all these people already knew who I was before I'd met any of them. Finn looks at me expectantly.

"Oh, you don't need to make anything Ellena." I say remembering her name, "Chicken curry and rice sounds amazing." I smile.

"She's very sweet." She says approvingly to Finn, who nodded. "I will bring it out to you, are you hungry as well?" She asks Finn.

"I'll have the same." He tells her. We walk out into another huge room, full of long tables with chairs along the sides. "Are you overwhelmed?" He asks me, pulling out a chair for me to sit down.

"I am not." I admit honestly. "But I've only been here an hour." I chuckle. "The only thing weird to me that's standing out... How do all these people already know who I am?" I ask him when he'd say down next to me. He stares at me a moment, trying to decide how to answer that question. "Tell me the truth."

"I've spoken quite a bit about you, for a while." He says.

"How long have you been watching me, you stalker." I ask him, making a teasing comment at the end. He's uncomfortable again, "You've going to have to tell me junk eventually." I sigh.

"Since you were 16." He answers. My mouth drops open, and I don't reply right away. Ellena walks between us and sets down the plates, suddenly I'm just not that hungry anymore. "My soul lead me to you." He tries to explain.

"You said you found me in dreams." I narrow my eyes at him.

"I did. Just because I didn't approach you in your dreams, doesn't mean I wasn't still there." He says. "I didn't want to panic, or scare you before I had the chance to meet you in person. I knew that I would have to wait a long time before anything would even happen between us, and I wanted to time everything perfectly."

"Now I'm a little freaked out." I admit.

"I thought you might be." He sighs. We sit in silence for a moment, and I push around the food on my plate, and even take a bite because I wasn't trying to be rude to Ellena's cooking. "By the way, I did the math... In years on Earth, I am 34 years old." He says with a half smile, trying to lighten the mood. I smirk, and let out a little chuckle. "There's that pretty smile. So to answer your question, I've known for a very long time that you were the only woman for me, and I may or may not have bragged a little bit to everyone."

"I'm still freaked out." I murmur, taking another bite. It was good, like I couldn't even lie about that.

"I'm sorry, my love." He sighs.

"What is the ultimate goal in all of this?" I ask him. Honestly I wasn't sure that I wanted to know the answer to that.

"You're not ready to hear it." He tells me, fidgeting nervously.

"Is it bad?"

"I hope you don't think so." He answers. "When you're ready, I'll know and I will tell you. I promise, but right now lets just agree my goal is to be with you."

"Fine." I grumble. We sit in silence, and he lets me eat in peace. "This is very good Ellena." I call to her, I could see her wandering about in the kitchen through the big wooden door.

"Thank you lady Annabelle." She smiles.

"That's going to take getting used to. Lady Annabelle?" I make a face at him, making him chuckle.

"It's the respectful way to speak to someone of higher status." He says.

"Oh..." I murmur.

"Would you like to look around?" He asks me.

"Yes." I agree.

"Walk with me." He grins, taking my hand. "Thank you Ellena." He says back to her before walking back out into the larger foyer area. He pushes open the front door and we walk outside. Out in the distance past the land the castle say on you could see the homes that littered around it, and past those the village was surrounded by a large, tall stone wall. We walk around the side of the castle and down the path to a stable. I don't know if I've mentioned my love for horses. If I was able to have one, I would but with my internship and the moving like it just wasn't possible for me right now but I grew up riding. It's in my blood. "The stables, has over 100 horses." He states. I walk up to a stall that has a huge, thick black horse in it. The horse had stuck his head out of the stall and without a second thought I wrapped my arms around his neck. I couldn't help but chuckle when i felt him put pressure against my back, almost like he was hugging me back.

"Hello sweet boy." I murmur, pulling back and scratching under his head. He lets out a soft knicker and brushes his upper lip over my shoulder.

"I've never seen him so affectionate with anyone." Finn states, watching us with an amused expression. "Even me." He adds.

"He's yours?" I ask him, rubbing his big giant head. He laid it right against my chest.

"He is. His name is Calhoun. It means warrior." He tells me. "Calhoun has never let me down in battle." He says. I make a face, as an animal lover I didn't like to hear about animals being used in wars or anything like that. Don't get me wrong, I get why it's done, I just didn't like to see animals die for any reason.

"You're so handsome." I tell Calhoun, who seemed to understand exactly what I was saying. "So handsome..." I murmur. I press a few kisses along his forehead, moving his mane to the side.

"I'm handsome as well." Finn pouts playfully.

"You are handsome." I smirk at him. "When do I get one?" I ask him. I look up at him with big green eyes from under my eyelashes, only to see him grin.

"What makes you think you don't already?" He raises his eyebrows.

"Really!?" I grin.

"The grey one behind you, begging for your attention." He nods to him. "His name is Dillon, it means faithful. He's waited a long time to meet you."

"When you say stuff like that it's overwhelms and freaks me out again." I tell him honestly as I approached Dillon. He extended his neck and his nose brushed across my face. "Hello pretty boy." I greet him.

"I'm sorry." He tells me. "He's your caomhnoir. Your guardian." He explains. "We'll go for a ride next time."

"I miss riding." I sigh, wrapping my arms around Dillon's nose.

"You're a very good rider." He smiles. Of course he'd know that. "Would you like to meet your dragon?" He asks. I almost choke on my own breath, it makes Dillon perk his ears and give me a sideways glance. "Are you alright?"

"Did you say dragon?" I question, wide eyed.

"Yes." He nods nonchalantly. He nods towards the doors and I follow behind him.

"I'd have been happy with a puppy..." I murmur, walking along behind him. He glances back at me, a smirk evident on his face.

"I'll get you one of those too if you wish." He shrugs with a chuckle. I roll my eyes and step into the gated area and he pulls the gate shut behind me. "I may have been jumping the gun so to speak when I said meet your dragon..." He murmurs when we enter a room that was filled with multi colored, extremely large eggs. Not like rainbow colors, but there was whites, creamy colors, brown, black ect...

"I'm lost." I sigh.

"One of these eggs holds your dragon." He explains, "A dragon doesn't hatch until it senses that their bonded is close by. He or she will only listen to your commands, will only fly for you..."

"How do I know which one it is?" I ask him. He grins and in my peripheral vision I see him running his fingers over one of the eggs.

"You'll figure it out." He tells me, "On a day that you're here for a little bit and can sit with them. Until then, I should probably get you back home." He sighs.

"How old are you here?" I ask him, grabbing his shirt sleeve and pulling him to look at me.

"637 years." He answers swiftly.

"Oh." I choked out. I seem to say 'oh' a lot around him. That was my go to word when I didn't know what else to say.

"Time stands nearly still here, right now you are indeed aging but not near as fast as you age on Earth." He tells me. I tilt my head, I was a little confused. "It's not going to make sense. That's just how our world turns." He shrugs.

"Alright." I sigh. "I'm tired, can we go home?" I ask him, lacing my fingers into his own. He transported us back to his castle in Ireland.

"Did you like it?" He asks, pulling off his shirt. My eyes locked onto his chest, why did he have to pull off his shirt and tease me like this. It was already taking every ounce of self control I had to not jump his bones. "Do you like this?" He teases me more, glancing down at himself.

"That's not fair." I grumble at him. "And yes, to both questions."

"It's extremely important to me that you're comfortable in both worlds." He says, slipping both hands across my waist.

"Uhm..." I murmur, letting my own hands slide up his chest. He raises his eyebrows, waiting for whatever I was about to ask. "What do you mean when you say we need to establish ourselves in your world?" I question.

"Marriage." He answers simply. My jaw drops, "It won't happen too soon, I promise." He says when I don't respond.

"You know you have to meet my family way before marriage right?" I ask him.

"I see no problem with that." He agrees easily.

"Really? That easy?" I question, narrowing my eyes at him.

"Really that easy." He nods, "I'd love to finally meet your parents. Perhaps I could convince your father to take me fishing." He states and I laugh out loud.

"You can't be like this to my family... You've got to pretend that we just met in Ireland. None of the creepy watching you stuff." I say seriously.

"I understand." He replies.

"Finn, I'm serious... My daddy'll legit kill you if you say you've been watching his baby girl since she was 16." I point an accusing finger at him. He smiles, and pulls me against him by that same finger.

"I get it. We met in Ireland, through your internship." He says softly, "And I just couldn't stay away." He winks and I grin.

"That's a good story."

A/N: First off, I'm not sure how much longer I can hold out on some smutty goodness... So maybe expect that soon lol. So I probably wouldn't expect an update from me now for a couple weeks. I'm going on vacation this week to visit family and I'll be honest when I say I have zero intentions of working on my stories while I"m with them. Sorry, look me up in a couple weeks! Love y'all! :)